“Cool, I won’t be the only one wearing a mantilla, that should drive the woman’s ordination crowd nuts.”

“Oh, look, fellow Holly Land Pilgrims, how are you, long time no see.”

“Are you nervous Deacon Tom?”

“Yes, this pew is very full, but I believe my husband and son have saved a bit of room for me there in the middle, thanks.”

“We need to take up a collection for better AC in our cathedral.”

“This is the most enormous procession of priests I have ever seen in my life.”

“Is he pouring that Chrism from a jug like water?” “Wow, that’s a LOT of holy oil.”

“We have new priests, and one will be at our Parish. Whoot, whoot.”

Consecration prayers recited by over one hundred men at once felt more like a force, a wall of energy, light, Truth, beauty, love. It felt more like a physical wave than an auditory recitation of prayers and even my wandering brain was speechless.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray For These Men, Hide Them In The Folds of Your Mantle. Amen.

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen on Womenly Virtue

“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

About Me

In the beginning (2006 or so) I blogged about our adoption process. We home studied, we got the training to become foster parents, we waited, we said yes to every group of kids the agency spoke to us about and …..NOTHING HAPPENED. Zip, zero nada.
So I changed my blogging focus to living a life of fidelity to Christ and his vicar the Pope and blogged about infertility, and miscarriage and living life from a Catholic perspective.
Then one day we got the call, and this time was different. This boy was available for adoption, and we were on the short list. He moved in, the adoption was finalized two months later, and our new history is being made day by day.
This blog is about our journey as a Catholic family living our lives waiting with joyful hope for the coming of our Lord.